Cities should not pay for new stadiums

Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by rory on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:33AM (#30685815)

> But this idea that opera is stuffy high culture is the same mistake people make with Shakespeare

These things ARE high culture today. Whether or not they were high culture when they were first produced doesn't change that in the slightest.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by mbg721 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:55AM (#30686104)

That's true, but it just highlights how bizarre and arbitrary high-culture is. I don't know how to say "Hey everybody, we're all going to get laid!" in Italian while preserving Rodney Dangerfield's voice.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by rory on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:13AM (#30686328)

Absolutely. The arbitrariness doesn't only apply to performance, either. Fancy people like old stuff. Jackson Pollock. Dubliners.

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